Valori e identità: per un rinnovato umanesimo costituzionale

: Values and Identity are two elements that can conflict. Values express specific points of view. Identity makes a Person unique and unrepeatable. can values define personal Identity? This article aims to describe a methodological path so that Values can legitimately condition the process of progressive building of personal Identity. The first part is dedicated to the study of personal Identity, examined in its three components: individual Identity, social Identity, constitutional Identity. In the second part I will support the thesis according to which Values can perform that function only if transformed into constitutional Principles: Values will be understood as ideal conceptions of Society. The third part will be dedicated to the construction of a structure with concentric circles where the nucleus is the Person. The three rings of Proximity, Sovereignty and Integration gravitate around the nucleus. Through the constitutional Identity, the Person will be able to consciously participate in the relationship with other People in a space of constitutional Humanism where Citizenship is not the necessary condition.